Ο παγκοσμίου φήμης Βραζιλιάνικος καφές, υπάρχει χάρη στον Francisco de Mello Palheta, τον οποίο είχε στείλει ο τότε Ισπανός αυτοκράτορας στην Γαλλική Γουινέα να βρει σπόρους καφέ. Οι Γάλλοι δεν θέλανε να μοιραστούν αυτόν τον "θησαυρό" με τον Francisco, αλλά οι γυναίκα του Γάλλου κυβερνήτη μαγεύτηκε τόσο πολύ από την ομορφιά του, που όταν εκείνος έφυγε του έδωσε ένα μπουκέτο λουλούδια που είχαν κρυμμένα μέσα τους αρκετούς σπόρους ώστε να μπορέσει να ξεκινήσει αυτό που όλοι γνωρίζουμε σήμερα σαν την Βραζιλιάνικη αυτοκρατορία του καφέ! Για την πράξη του αυτή η National Geogrphic τον έχει χαρακτηρίσει ως τον James Bond του καφέ!

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Catuaí and Villa Sarchí, in the Central Valley, Costa Rica

Young coffee trees are particularly prone to frost damage, so creating a small environment to trap some warmth helps protect them (in Yirgalem, Ethiopia).

Two year old coffee trees with carpet grass between rows. Red Ti plants in foreground. www.konakingcoffee.net

At Cherry St. we made lattes with love. This is where I started to get in to latte art, thanks Jedi Joe.

I captured this branch of a coffee tree while exploring the US Botanic Gardens in Washington, DC this past

weekend.

Crew member Alex Sickmuller’s valentine is the Kentucky coffeetree (Gymnocladus dioicus )which is his favorite tree! Here are a few things that make it special.

•This tree is native to Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.

•It has a reputation of being tough, drought-resistant, pollution-tolerant, w and adaptable to various soils.

•As an ornamental shade tree, it is an excellent, picturesque choice for recreational sites.

•Its bark is rough with scaly ridges curling outward, forming a very unique and interesting pattern.

•The female tree has fragrant flowers like the best rose.

•National champion in size is 90 feet tall, with an 89-foot canopy, found in West Liberty, Kentucky.

•Leaves start off pinkish/purplish before changing to dark green, and, along with seeds and pod pulp, are highly toxic.

•Seed pods ripen in October and hang on through winter.

•Seeds were used as a coffee substitute by early Kentucky settlers, who seemed to destroy the toxic principals by roasting them.

•Do not eat the sweetish gummy pulp within its seed pod!!

Jennifer (Jen's Photography) and I went on a Road Trip up to Madison Wisconsin. From the "Want to do a road trip ?" to getting going took just over 1 hour and we were off. Jen found out about the Olbrich Botanical Gardens and that is where we headed to. Inside the conservatory I found some of these red cherries (drupes) tucked back among the leaves. It took a soft flash for me to catch the colors just right. I'm not sure what the plant was but Jen thought it could be a coffee tree...After a little research this is indeed a coffee tree

Lourdes de Naranjo, Costa Rica

Congress Park, Saratoga Springs, Saratoga Co., NY

From top to bottom: Ripe, unripe, half ripe. At Finca Matalapa in La Libertad, El Salvador.

Ofoto.com thumbnail from a roll of 35mm film (long before Kodak bought them).

backlit leaf

Through the use of native plant material, the landscape is able to provide habitat while reducing the water needs. Apache Plume, Potentialla and Kentucky Coffee Tree are all water trifty plants.

4/11/2011

We sat at the Coffee Tree for over four hours tonight, chatting and enjoying caffeinated beverages while working individually on various tasks. Alexis did her knitting, Carrie did real work, Emily read and surfed the internet, and Michael had his newspaper.

And me? I copied months of Tarot readings from my old notebook into my new fancy one. I've been putting this off for forever now, and I got nearly all of it done tonight. I couldn't believe it... I only have five or six more to move over! I must have done... I don't know, forty of them tonight? It was something ridiculous. But the reason it's taken me so long is that it's boring when you don't have anything else to do. When you're chatting, it went so quickly!

Plus, they had the front rolled up and it was a most pleasant 60-some degrees outside. Heaven.

Vacavile, CA, 2003.

Not nearly as good as Travisimo's shot, but culturally significant nonetheless. Sadly, the Coffee Tree was torn down not too long after this was shot.

Can someone refresh me on what's there now?

2013 Dec BIGISLAND HAWAII

Coffee!

2013 Dec BIGISLAND HAWAII

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Coffee ripening at Finca Matalapa in La Libertad, El Salvador

This beautiful and elegant flower it’s the flower of a coffee tree. This flower is much known by its Latin name “Coffea Arabica” for its native place of origin, “which is believed to be Abyssinia, where it has long been known under the name of Coffa”. This flower is a great example of a homologous type of flower and also as a dicot with 5 pedals. This particularly coffee type of flower comes from the family of “Rubiaceae”.

Finca El Yalu wonderful coffee farm in the highlands of Guatemala, producing one of the best coffees in this country year after year. Landmark of an amazing cup, its character shows true Guatemalan Coffee characteristics that only bare more complexity as we undertake this off-season walk through its many spectacular views. Amidst blackberry plantations and cow fields, one wishes to anchor here for a while.

Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. This is a beauty, far better than my photo. Dirr suggested the name 'Minnesota Fats' for this dwarf form which is otherwise referred to in his Manual as 'Minnesota Dwarf Form'. My favourite find on a recent visit. -Rob

Photographed in the Roberta Stewart Wildlife Area, south of Port Lambton, Ontario.

Finca El Yalu wonderful coffee farm in the highlands of Guatemala, producing one of the best coffees in this country year after year. Landmark of an amazing cup, its character shows true Guatemalan Coffee characteristics that only bare more complexity as we undertake this off-season walk through its many spectacular views. Amidst blackberry plantations and cow fields, one wishes to anchor here for a while.

I guess it makes sense that coffee trees have flowers. They smell really good.

Ready for harvest at Finca Matalapa in La Libertad, El Salvador

Botanical name: Gymnocladus dioicus

Spanish common name: Raigon del canada

English common name: Kentucky Coffeetree

pea family : Fabaceae

origin USA

The common name "coffeetree" derives from the use of the roasted seeds as a substitute for coffee in times of poverty. They are a very inferior substitute for real coffee, and caution should be used in trying them as they are poisonous in large quantities. - wikipedia

Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid ♦ Royal Botanic Garden, Madrid

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Cup of black coffee and coffee beans on wooden background.

Finca El Yalu wonderful coffee farm in the highlands of Guatemala, producing one of the best coffees in this country year after year. Landmark of an amazing cup, its character shows true Guatemalan Coffee characteristics that only bare more complexity as we undertake this off-season walk through its many spectacular views. Amidst blackberry plantations and cow fields, one wishes to anchor here for a while.

Vacavile, CA, 2003.

This was over on the other side of 80, near the old Nut Tree parking lot.

Soil profile: Profile of a Culleoka soil. This soil has siltstone bedrock between depths of 50 and 100 centimeters. The bedrock limits the rooting depth and the amount of moisture available to plants. The Culleoka series consists of moderately deep, well drained, soils formed in colluvium or residuum from siltstone or interbedded shale, limestone, siltstone, and fine grained sandstone. (Soil Survey of Adair County, Kentucky; by Harry S. Evans, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

Landscape: Cabbage in an area of Culleoka-Weikert complex, 2 to 6 percent slopes. Culleoka soils form on steep upland hillsides and narrow ridgecrests with slopes ranging from 2 to 70 percent. Using a system of conservation tillage and planting cover crops reduce the runoff rate and help to minimize soil loss by erosion. Grassed waterways can be used in some areas to slow and direct the movement of water and reduce the hazard of erosion.

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs

Thickness of the solum and depth to lithic bedrock of dominantly siltstone or fine grained sandstone is 20 to 40 inches. Content of flagstones and channers range from 0 to 35 percent in the A horizon, 10 to 35 percent in the B horizon, and 25 to 80 percent in the BC and C horizons. Reaction ranges from moderately to strongly acid in the solum and strongly to slightly acid in the substratum.

USE AND VEGETATION: Chiefly pasture and hay, with some tobacco, corn, and small grains. Native forest has oak, maple, black walnut, ash, hickory, beech, elm, hackberry, locust, Kentucky coffeetree, redbud, dogwood, and red cedar as the dominant species.

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The Bluegrass region of Kentucky, the outer Central Basin of Tennessee, Arkansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. It is of moderate extent.

For additional information about the survey area, visit:

www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/kentucky/KY001...

For a detailed soil description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CULLEOKA.html

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#culleoka

a planta do café

Tuzson János Botanikus Kert, Nyíregyháza